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The University of Virginia misinterpreted the First Amendment and violated students’ right to free speech when it denied funding to a Christian magazine, the Supreme Court decided Thursday in a 5-4 vote.

Maryland education officials have turned down a request from a Takoma Park college for state aid, contending that the school’s close ties to the Seventh-day Adventist Church make it ineligible for government funding.

By 1693, when the hysteria finally subsided in Salem village, 19 people had been hanged on witchcraft charges. A dozen years later, the young girl who had triggered the witch hunt made a public confession: Her tales of satanic spells,

A Federal judge found yesterday that the University of New Hampshire acted wrongly when it suspended a professor for sexual harassment after seven female students complained about comments he had made during a writing class.